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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Yep, behold the glory of our brand new site design! Thanks for the many lovely comments so far; I do hope you'll all find it more streamlined and purty-like.

Shout-out time: many MANY thanks to Awesome Aric (yes, I think that's how I shall refer to him from now on) of Tiki Kitchen Design. Aric has been working with me and John for weeks now, and for every "hey, what if we tried THIS?" he gave us multiple options and somehow managed to mask his desire to throttle us with unbridled patience and enthusiasm. Those of you familiar with web design know just how difficult it is to design a customized site in Blogger, so the fact that Aric was willing to try - and had the skills to write code from the ground up when necessary - has been a godsend. We'll be continuing to tweak some of the links and pages this week, but in the meantime y'all be sure to thank Aric in true CW fashion, k?

And, Aric? We mean that. Truly. ;)

Update: It seems we have all the bugs worked out now but we're hoping you guys can help us out by telling us about any problems you encounter. Let us know okay?

I thought the ads were supposed to disappear? Or did I misread the "we're cutting ads" bit of the announcement? Normally I read through the LiveJournal feed so it doesn't matter but I was curious when I saw they were still there.

I can't see it either on my iPhone where the old blog cane through just fine. All I get is a white background with skinny ads on the left and the blog WAY down at the bottom. So far I like the old Cake Wrecks much better.

Yay for the new layout! Looks all professional and fancy and whatnot. :o)

Unfortunately, the first time it loaded I did get just plain html messiness. I'm on a PC, using Explorer in Windows. But, as per your suggestion, I reloaded and was rewarded with the new site in all its glory.

Thanks for removing that light blue text on dark blue background. It was rather hard to read for these.. um.. older eyes. Now if you could do the same for the category links on the left side of the page, please.

We're working on it over here. The odd thing is, with Blogger, you can only control so much. Since the occasional breakdowns are pretty well distributed over several operating systems and browsers, I think it might be a Blogger issue.

the white background is great for these 'older eyes', the 3 ads & various odds & ends before the daily wreck? not so much,I had to scroll down almost a third of the page before the column actually started?bleh~sorry

Didn't work in Firefox 3.0.13 on a PC running XP. Refreshing the page fixed it but it was still very slow to load and I have 20Mbsp FIOS. Yes, maybe updating to Firefox 3.5 would solve the problem but I shouldn't have to stay up to the minute just to read a blogger site.

Love your new design! It didn't show up right when I tried the Sunday Sweets for the first time today (using Firefox on Windows Vista), but clicked "Refresh" and haven't encountered any problems since. Go CW!

I'm on Windows Vista and Firefox 3.5.2 and it came up with narrow side bars and a blank page with the plain text blog way down at the bottom, refreshing brought it up just fine and the page looks great!

New site looks great! It works just dandy on my work PC (I mean... I don't look at CW at work!) and I don't expect any issues at home. Thanks for the great blog, and I can't wait to visit Powell's and meet you when you stop by Oregon on your tour!

I see a blue starburst-y thing and babies riding carrots, but no header that says "Cake Wrecks" or "Cak Wreks" or even "Cake Wercks". Everything else seems to appear, a few ads, some blogher stuff on the left, etc.

I don't usually like change. If it ain't broke and all that. But, I DO like the look. The sizing is good. One zoom in and it is the perfect reading width on my blackberry. Unfortunately, it is loading slower. And intermittently locking up. Either the resolution is higher, or the scripts are doing too much. I know blackberry is not a high priority browser. I used to have troubles but it had been much better lately. I CAN see it and apparently can leave comments. Yay!

Looks GREAT! (I had no problems viewing it @ 9:30am est when the new post was up) Looking forward to spending many hours at work at the site! My monitor at work does not have good contrast and brightness so the white background around the posts will make it easier to see!

Hey just wanted to make a general comment on your WoW posts. In the game neither the Horde or Alliance are inherently evil except to one another. They both fight a common enemy but as separate factions. It is, however, common knowledge that the Horde are primarily played by more adults than the Alliance because they "look evil". WoW lore would actually define the Alliance as being more evil per their actions and general intolerance of so many other races in the game.

Love the new look! (Just for the record, I'm viewing with Windows/IE.) A great big 'thak you' to Arik for the remodel and also to Jen, Jon, Anne-Marie and everyone else who works so hard to bring Cake Wrecks to us.

Hi, long time lurker (and fan!) first time commenter. I love the new look. I can see the site just fine, but horror of horrors, I cannot see the images in the posts! No cake pictures, wah! I'm sure it'll be fixed soon, so I'm not hyperventilating yet...yet.

I'm running firefox on vista, btw, and I've tried refreshing the page several times. I'm about to open up IE to see if it does the same thing.

Thanks for all your hard work CW team, I'm not discouraged. Much love.

Oh I simply adore the color scheme. I love blue and orange, and yellow and purple. Simply marvelous.

My only suggestion is that white text box. White is such a plain, boring color and it's very hard on the eyes in contrast with the dark blue of the rest of the page. Maybe a light orange? Something like #ffc975 and then the main font could be a navy, or #00038d or something.

I'm a graphic design student and if I had worked with Blogger before I would have been more than happy to design the site for free.

UM, well, I see I'm in the minority here, but I don't care for the new look. It's harder on the eyes. The font seems smaller and less easy to red, so I'm staring at the words rather than cake pix. And the cake pix, now surrounded by white instead of that nice blue which drew your eye IN to the pix, well, the white frame is jarring and to me makes the pix look smaller. Sorry to be a grump. It's just more work to look at it.

Looks great! I'll miss the links to other entries in the month though since I'll have to go back through my feed for each new post when I have a bunch to catch up on. I love having a 'recent posts' section or 'next' and 'previous' on a blog.

I personally preferred the wider middle column (Firefox 3.5.2 on Vista Home Premium 32 SP2), but this is nice. No major objections, just the minor personal thing about the size of the middle column. :)

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